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A French-speaking Walloon town[edit] Grand-Place of Tournai. Tournai is a French-speaking town of Belgium. The local language is tournaisien, a Picard dialect similar to that of other municipalities of Hainaut and Northern France. Tournai also belongs to Romance Flanders, like Lille, Douai, Tourcoing, and Mouscron.
Tournai-sur-Dive. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Tournai-sur-Dive ( French pronunciation: [tuʁnɛ syʁ div] ⓘ, literally Tournai on Dive) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France .
Postal codes were introduced in France in 1964, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. They were updated to use the current 5 digit system in 1972. France uses five-digit numeric postal codes, the first two digits representing the département in which the city is located. The département numbers were assigned alphabetically between 1860 ...
Tournai is best known for The Belfry of Tournai, a freestanding belfry, or bell tower (72 metres, or 236 ft, in height), that is one of the oldest and best preserved belfries in Belgium. [4] It was built in 1188. [5] Featuring a 256-step stairway, it is part of a set of Belfries of Belgium and France, and in 1999 it was registered on the UNESCO ...
Website. www .ville-noyon .fr. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Noyon ( French pronunciation: [nwajɔ̃]; Picard: Noéyon; Latin: Noviomagus Veromanduorum, Noviomagus of the Veromandui, then Noviomum) is a commune in the Oise department, northern France.
Belfry of Tournai. / 50.60556°N 3.38806°E / 50.60556; 3.38806. The Belfry of Tournai ( French: Beffroi de Tournai) is a freestanding bell tower of medieval origin in Tournai, Belgium, 72 metres (236 ft) in height with a 256-step stairway. This landmark building is one of a set of Belfries of Belgium and France registered on the UNESCO ...
The Grand-Place ( French: [ɡʁɑ̃ plas]; "Grand Square" [a]) is the main square and the centre of activity of Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium. The square has a triangular shape, owing it to the convergence of several ancient paths, [2] and it covers 7,500 m 2 (81,000 sq ft). As in many Belgian cities, there are a number of cafés and pubs on the ...
Tournai Cathedral. / 50.6065500°N 3.3888583°E / 50.6065500; 3.3888583. The Cathedral of Our Lady ( French: Notre-Dame de Tournai, Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Doornik ), or Tournai Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral, see of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai, Belgium. It has been classified both as a Wallonia 's major heritage ...